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Toy Battle Review: Squeaky Clean
★★★☆☆ — Toy Battle is nothing if not honest. Straightforward. This is an efficient war game staged between green molded soldiers, laser-armed robots, and the other denizens of a platonic ideal toy box. In other words: toys battling.
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Cozy Stickerville Review: Slacking Off in Nothing Goes Wrongville
★★★☆☆ — This predictability gives the players a fair sense of control and safety; it’s maybe the “cozy” aspect of the game I… Read More
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52 Duels Review: Can I See Your Deck List?
★★★★☆ — The variety of stuff to do evokes playing a TCG with hundreds of unique game pieces. It’s sort of incredible given… Read More
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Flamecraft Duals Review: Cultivating the Same Garden
★★★★☆ — Flamecraft Duals’ board, far from a Go board ready to be carved into districts, is a shared playground. It is not… Read More
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Next Station Paris Review: Guided Tours / Game Design
★★★★☆ — While some other blank-and-writes revel in boxes combo’ing into other boxes, Paris is comparatively restrained. The metro is coming together thoughtful… Read More
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First Class Letters Review: Who Ordered the Letter Q?
★★★☆☆ — By my count, First Class Letters is about two things: words with lots of Js in them and knowing your alphabet.… Read More
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Tag Team Review: Corner Combo in Cardboard
★★★★☆ — I had resigned to not reviewing Tag Team after my initial plays, but something remote and hidden in a pretty bad… Read More
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Outfox the Fox Review: A Cleverer Pursuit
★★★★☆ — Outfox the Fox gets the details right, executes a novel concept, and lets you do some friendly deception without having to… Read More
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Take Time Review: Some Things Last a Long Time
★★★★☆ — Designers Alexi Piovesan and Julien Prothière let you encounter each challenge on your own terms: problem solving, coming up with your… Read More
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Dungeon Fighter Review: Spell Slinger
★★★☆☆ — Dungeon Fighter is less a dexterity game about getting good at accurately placing cubes and more a gauntlet of dice-themed humiliations… Read More
